Other than the children being home, all is normal. It’s like a day off school, except they have “e-learning” they’re refusing to do. My mouse wheel broke, so I ordered a new mouse. So far, we are doing well.
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Quick Tip: HyperDock as a Service
HyperDock, a macOS tool that provides windows previews like modern versions of Windows, seems to have problems on macOS Catalina for me. At random times, it will stop working and I need to go to System Preferences and disable and re-enable it; sometimes many times a day. I’ve tried contacting the author and so far […]
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Wisps, a WordPress Plugin
With Wisps, you can have code snippets similar to Gist, Pastebin, or similar code sharing sites. Using the built-in WordPress code editor, you can write snippets to post and share.
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Open source ngrok alternative
During a client onsite last year, I was first introduced to ngrok. Ngrok provides “secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.” The free tier of ngrok provides temporary, random subdomains to use. This is fine most of the time, but kind of causes problems for things like Jetpack that require persistent domain names for connecting. While I […]
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Debugging WordPress Hooks: Speed
If you google debugging WordPress hooks you’ll find a lot of information. About 1,180,000 results Let’s add another one. WordPress hooks are powerful, but also complex under the hood. There’s plenty of topics I could talk about here, but right now I’m only going to talk about speed. How long does it take for a […]
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Finding Duplicate WordPress Post Meta
Have you ever accidentally saved the same post meta to a post in WordPress, and ended up with a duplicate? Of course, you could go through each post and check the meta, check for duplicates, and delete any of them but… I think I’ve figured out a beast of an SQL query that will give […]
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WordPress Post Meta and JSON
…or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the slashes. Post Meta in WordPress is a great tool to store random bits of data associated with your posts. But did you know that it comes with its own set of problems? Have you ever tried storing a JSON string inside of post meta? Only […]
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Better Caching in WordPress
Caching data in WordPress is easy. Caching data in WordPress in a good and performant way takes a bit more work. For instance, many developers commonly use the Transients API to cache data. As the lowest common denominator in caching, this is okay. It’ll get the job done, even on a $10/year shared hosting plan. But what […]
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Page Generation Graph for WordPress
At work, one of the more interesting customizations we have on WordPress.com for our VIP clients is a dashboard that contains custom widgets. One of them is a page generation graph that shows the average page generation time for their site compared to all others. That way they can judge their code performance against a […]
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Quick Tip: DreamHost cron and WP-CLI
If you’re hosting your WordPress website on DreamHost, and use their cron system to offload your WordPress faux-cron for better reliability, be careful of what version of PHP you have in your code. I recently had an issue where my cron events weren’t firing, and after enabling email output, I ended up with something like […]